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<B>Current Version</B>: v3.7.2<BR>
<B>Previous Version</B>: <A HREF=v3.7.1.html>v3.7.1</a><BR>
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This document describes the changes made to the software between the
<I>previous</I> and <I>current</I> versions (see above).
If you don't find something listed here, then it was not done in this
timeframe, or it was not considered important enough to be mentioned.
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<LI><A HREF="#hightlights">Major Changes</A>
<LI><A HREF="#configure">Changes in the software configuration</A>
<LI><A HREF="#libtiff">Changes in libtiff</A>
<LI><A HREF="#tools">Changes in the tools</A>
<LI><A HREF="#contrib">Changes in the contrib area</A>
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<A NAME="highlights"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>M</FONT>AJOR CHANGES:</B></A>

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	<li> Maintainance release. Many bugfixes in the build environment
	and compatibility improvements.

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<A NAME="configure"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:</B></A>

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	<li> configure.ac: Use -rpath option instead of -R as per bug
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732">
		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732</a>

	<li> tif_stream.cxx: Fixes for C++ stream interface from
	Michael Rinne and Edward Lam.

	<li> configure.ac: Make the documentation directory location
	configurable via the --with-docdir option (as suggested by
	Jeremy C. Reed).

	<li> Place the C++ stream API in the separate library called
	libtiffxx to avoid unneeded dependencies. Probably there will be
	more C++ API in the future. As per bugs
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733">
		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733</a>
	and <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730">
		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730</a>
	
	<li> configure, configure.ac: Replace --disable-c++ with the
	--disable-cxx option as	per bug
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730">
		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730</a>.

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<A NAME="libtiff"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN LIBTIFF:</B></A>

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	<li> Applied patch from Lee Howard to support a new tag TIFFTAG_FAXDCS
	(34911) used in HylaFax software. As per bug
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771">
		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771</a>

	<li> tif_open.c: Remove unnesessary TIFFSeekFile() call as per
	bug <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756">
		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756</a>

	<li> tiff.h: Changed the int8 definition to be always signed char
	as per bug
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727">
		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727</a>

	<li> tiffio.h: Move TIFFOpenW() function into the extern "C"{}
	block as per bug
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763">
		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763</a>

	<li> tif_dirread.c: Estimate strip size in case of wrong or
	suspicious values in the tags. As per bugs
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=705">
		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=705</a>
	and <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320">
		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320</a>

	<li> tif_color.c: Use double as the second argument of pow()
	function in TIFFCIELabToRGBInit(). As per bug
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741">
		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741</a>

	<li> tif_pixarlog.c: Avoid warnings when converting float to
	integer as per bug
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=740">
		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=740</a>

	<li> tif_getimage.c: Always fill the error message buffer in
	TIFFRGBAImageBegin() as per bug
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739">
		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739</a>

	<li> tif_jpeg.c: Added ability to read/write the fax specific
	TIFFTAG_FAXRECVPARAMS, TIFFTAG_FAXSUBADDRESS and TIFFTAG_FAXRECVTIME
	tags as per bug
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736">
		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736</a>

	<li> tif_win32.c: Fixed message formatting in functions
	Win32WarningHandler() and Win32ErrorHandler() as per bug
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735">
		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735</a>

	<li> tiffio.h: Move the color conversion routines in the 'extern
	"C"' section as per bug
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727">
		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727</a>

	<li> tiff.h: Restore back the workaround for AIX Visual Age C
	compiler to avoid double definition of BSD types as per bug
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39">
		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39</a>

	<li> tif_getimage.c: More fixes for multiple-alpha-channelled
	RGB-images as per bug
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=713">
	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=713</a>

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<A NAME="tools"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE TOOLS:</B></A>

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	<li> tiffcmp.c: Added ability to compare the 32-bit integer and
	floating point data; complain on unsupported bit depths.

	<li> tiffcmp.c: Use properly sized buffer in short arrays comparison
	as per bug
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785">
		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785</a>

	<li> fax2ps.c: Replace insecure mktemp() function with the
	tmpfile() as per bug
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786">
		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786</a>

	<li> tiffgt.c: Fix problem on big-endian CPUs so that images
	display more correctly.  Images display brighter than they should
	on a Sun workstation.

	<li> tiff2ps.c: Fixed problem with page sizes as per bug
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742">
		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742</a>

	<li> tiff2ps.c: Interpret the -w and -h options independently. As
	per bug
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=689">
		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=689</a>

	<li> tiffdump.c: Fixed problem when read broken TIFFs with the
	wrong tag counts (Dmitry V. Levin, Martin Pitt).

	<li> tiffset.c: Convert character option to integer value as per
	bug <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725">
	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725</a>.

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<A NAME="contrib"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE CONTRIB AREA:</B></A>

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	<li> No changes.

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